On 8 Jul 2003 14:17:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burrill) wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Rich Ulrich wrote in part: > > > The members of one sample might or might not be > > "independent" of each other, too. They would not > > be independent, relative to the outcome, if more than > > a chance-number of them shared a characteristic > > that was meaningful to what is being surveyed. > > Nor, I think, if _less_ than "a chance-number" shared such > a characteristic. >
Sure. That immediately follows in formal logic -- If C is a characteristic, then not-C is another. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." Justice Holmes. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
